Yashar Akrami
@YasharAkrami
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Cosmologist. Asst. Prof. @ift_uam_csic. Adj. Asst. Prof. @cwru. Based in Madrid/Spain. Worked/studied in USA, UK, France, Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Sweden.
Madrid, Spain
Joined March 2021
Our @CompactCollab paper on cosmic topology has just been published in PRL as a “Featured in Physics” article: 🥳 And it is the “focus” of Physics Magazine:
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RT @QuantaMagazine: Acoustic signatures in the cosmic microwave background could help researchers infer the shape of the universe. https://…
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RT @QuantaMagazine: Is the universe a sphere, like the surface of Earth? Or maybe it’s shaped like a doughnut? Cosmologists believe that th…
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RT @ift_uam_csic: Is the universe infinite, or does it have a hidden shape waiting to be discovered? 🌌 @YasharAkrami from #IFT is leading…
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Quanta Magazine (@QuantaMagazine) just published a story about our searches for the topology of the Universe:
Is the universe infinite and unbounded, or confined to a specific topology? Cosmologists are using new computational methods to find answers. Steve Nadis reports:
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RT @martinmbauer: Could we tell whether anyone in our galaxy uses a warp drive? This sounds like a crazy question, but it can be answered…
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Having Persian dinner with IFT's cosmology group. What a wonderful evening it was! @ift_uam_csic
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RT @ThomasVanRiet2: To the job&grant referees in theoretical physics/math: you all know this is true for all of us and we hope you take thi…
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@StringSwamp Well, if you said Einstein would work on string theory as the rest are details, I could probably agree with it, but I would not place the swampland program on the same level as GR. The swampland program is not a theory, although it is very important, I agree.
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@StringSwamp But there *were* equations to be solved (by others) at some point (in principle) ;-)
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@adamsolo @ift_uam_csic @CompactCollab Why would I do that? IFT is an international institute, and I was speaking to the world 😉
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@thatothapo @ift_uam_csic That's right, thanks for spotting the error. I will tell our website administrators to correct it.
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